Washington: Blue Origin has sent six tourists into space on Thursday, launching its first space mission in 2022. Five out of six people paid millions of dollars to get a seat on the New Shepard spacecraft to leave Earth. The spacecraft took them on a short ride into space, which made them feel weightless and with zero gravity.
His spacecraft went up to 100 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. As soon as the spacecraft touched the Kerman Line, known as the boundary of space, the passengers remained motionless and in zero gravity for some time. The New Shepard spacecraft took off from Launch Site One in West Texas and lasted just 10 minutes with the capsule making a parachute landing in the desert.
During the flight on Thursday, the spacecraft reached a speed of Mach 3, three times the speed of sound. Three minutes into the flight, New Shepard separated from the booster and passengers began to experience zero gravity and weightlessness as they exited their seats. In four minutes, New Shepard crossed the Kerman Line as it entered space, while the booster returned to Earth.
Within six minutes of the flight, the crew braced themselves back in their seats. Because the spacecraft had started returning to Earth. The first parachute was deployed at a time of nine minutes, which slowed the capsule to a speed of 26 kilometers per hour. After this, they landed safely in the desert.
Thursday’s launch was the fourth crewed mission for the New Shepard spacecraft and the 20th in its two decades of development, testing, and demonstration. Angel investor Marty Allen, real estate legend Mark Hegley and his wife Sharon Hegley, entrepreneur and University of North Carolina professor Jim Kitchen, and George Neal, founder-president of Commercial Space Technologies, we’re on the trip with guest traveler Gary Lai.
